New Ulm weekly review., 1887-03-02
EARTHQUAKE IN EUROPE.
Nice and Many Cities ON the Gut Of Genoa
Partially Destroyed by Earthquake
go. Shocks.
LarYe Number of People Killed and Injured.
three Hundred Perlshiny at Crevo
Alone.

quake were felt at Nice at 6 o'clock this
morning. Houses rocked, walls cracked and
IN some cases. frail tenements were thrown
TO the ground. The people rushed from their
houses and fell upon their knees in the
streets, praying for deliverance from
sudden death. Visitors to the city have
become thoroughly frightened and are leav-
Ing the place Many persons;we injured
by falling debris Much alarm is felt lest
there be recurrence Of the shocks. The
prince Of Wales who was at Nice few days
ago witnessing the festivities which precede
the Lenten season, had taken his departure
and was at Cannes Shocks were also felt at
Monte Carlo and Monaco, at which places
they Were so severe that rocks were detached
from the cliffs and precipitated into the sea-
The disturbances extendedas far as Geneva.
There were many casualties at Nice. Two
houses, one in St Etienne street and one in
st. PHILIPPE street, and the Mason Bourke
were destroyed. Three persons are buried
in the ruins There was also slight shock at
Marseilles this morning. The walls of num-
Der of housesin that city were cracked Shocks
were also felt at Leghorn and Milan and
several places in the province of Genoa,
Italy. Two violent shocks were felt at Tou-
Ion at 6 o'clock The first shock was Of fif-
teen seconds and the second of thirteen Sec
ondA The movement was from west to
east At Cannes three shocks were felt at
the same hour. The first shock, which was
very violent, lasted for minute The Sec
ond and third shocks were not SO severe us the
first Many persons at this place rushed to
the seashore for safety. Nobody was in
Jured At Avignon three shocks were ex-
perlenced between,6 and O'clock The
first shook was very severe and awakened
everybody in the place. Several shocks were
felt at Geneva ats O'Clock At the time of
the earthquake at Nice the Riviera was
crowded with English and American tourists
and persons Of distinction. When the first
shock occurred the streets were thronged
with persons In ball room costumes, return
ing to their homes from the last carnival sea-
son. To these the earthquake came with
peculiar terrors. The shocks were felt with
great severity at Savona, cear Genoa, and a
number of houses were wrecked and
eleven persons were killed at that place.
FAR WORSE
The earthquake this morning devastated
the whole of the italian Riviera At Noli,
on the gulf Of Genoa and not far from
savona, several houses fell and fifteen per-
sons we're killed Six we're killed and thirty
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AT Diano-Marino, near Onegiia, scores OF
people were killed and hundreds injured
Fully one-thlrd of the town was DESTROYED
A second and severe shock has occurred in
Genoa Ravia Lucca. Cuneo, Ahizola, Porto,
AaurIzlo, Oneglia and Noli. At Savona eight
persons were killed and fifteen others
injured Immense damage was done to
property. Further details from the Riviera
increase the disaster. AtGrevo, near Diano-
Marina, 800 persons were killed by being
buried In the ruins Of falling buildings
Railway traffic is suspended beyond Savona
The prisoners In the governments Jail at
Fnalbergo. alarmed by the earthquake, at
tempted TO escape but were overcome by
the guards An official dispatch from Cannes
says that no injury was done to life or prop
ETY. there, but that great panic prevails
At Genoa the shock was very Violent The
ducal palace and many houses were seri-
ously damaged There was an enormous
crowd at Carlo Felice theater to witness a
gala performance. The greatest alarm pre-
vailed when the shock came, At Turin the
churches suffered severely. In the neigh
borhood of Doordigera many houses fell
killing the inmates.